On
the morning of January 30, 2018, police found his body in a wooded creek
area near Pine Canyon. He had reportedly committed suicide by
hanging himself. He was 35 years old.

Salling
had been pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography, and was soon
to be sentenced. With his career in ruins, and facing four to
seven years in prison, he apparently drove his car to this secluded
area, parked at the roadside, and hanged himself from a tree near the
creek.

The spot is difficult to map precisely. About 25 miles north of
downtown Los Angeles, on a winding mountain road, Google maps the small
area where he parked his car as 6357 Big Tujunga Canyon Road, in Sunland-Tujunga, CA. But that changes abruptly to 10619 on the Google map, just a few yards south of the spot.

Bing Maps add more confusion. They map the parking spot as 4496 Big Tujunga Canyon Road (but changes abruptly to 12500 just a few feet to the south).

It's probably best to stick with the GPS coordinates, which are 34.292229, -118.286290 on both maps.

1001 W. Riverside Dr, Burbank, CA: Alan Thicke, the actor who played 'Jason Seaver', the dad on the hit '80s sitcom "Growing Pains", was born in Canada and was an avid ice hockey fan.

On the morning of December 13, 2016, Alan met up with his son and friends for their weekly pickup hockey game at Pickwick Gardens, an ice skating rink in Burbank (which happens to be less than two miles from Warner Bros studios, where they used to film "Growing Pains").

He
was playing on the ice around 11:30 AM, when he suffered a heart
attack. An ambulance arrived and took him to the nearby
Providence St. Joseph's Medical Center, but he was pronounced dead
within 30 minutes.

3866 Berry Drive, Studio City, CA: The home of Anton Yelchin, the actor who played 'Ensign Chekov' in the trio of new "Star Trek" movies, was killed in a freak accident on the night of June 18, 2016.

According
to initial reports, he had apparently stepped out of his Jeep Grand Cherokee, leaving it in neutral, and was behind it
when his SUV rolled down his steep driveway and crushed him against a brick
column and an iron gate at the bottom of that driveway.

Yelchin
had taken over the role of 'Chekov', the young Russian member of the
Enterprise bridge crew (a role originally played by Walter Koenig, in
the original '60s TV series), in the 2009 reboot, "Star Trek", and its
two sequels, 2013's "Star Trek: Into Darkness" and 2016's "Star Trek:
Beyond".

Like his Trek character, Yelchin was born in Russia, but his parents moved to the U.S. when he was a baby.

He was only 27 years old at the time of his death.

(Ironically, Trek's original 'Chekov' actor, Walter Koenig, is still alive and healthy, at age 79.)

25800 Pacific Coast Highway, in Malibu: OlympianBruce Jennerwas driving north on PCH around noon on February 7, 2015, when he was involved in a fatal four-car accident.

Jenner
(who
was in the process of transitioning into a woman at the time) was
driving a black Cadillac Escalade SUV, towing a dune buggy, and was
being followed by paparazzi. Reportedly, video of the moment
shows that he swerved to avoid stopped traffic in front of him, but
couldn't avoid smashing into the back of awhite Lexus in front of him. The impact sent the Lexus into oncoming traffic, where it was struck by a black Hummer. The older woman driving the Lexus died at the scene. According to reports, the momentum then carried Jenners SUV into a white Prius that had been stopped ahead of the Lexus.

38802 San Francisquito Canyon Road, in Green Valley, CA: where,on January 31, 2015, Ricardo Medina Jr., the actor who had played the red "Power Ranger", in the show's 10th season, was arrested for stabbing his roommate (Joshua Sutter) to death (in the abdomen) with a Samurai sword.

Medina
claimed self-defense, saying that Sutter had beaten him up, and that
after Medina locked himself in his bedroom (with his girlfriend),
Sutter broke into the room.

The
next year, he was charged with murder. In early 2016, as part of
a plea deal for a lesser sentence, he pleaded guilty to voluntary
manslaughter. In March 2017, he was sentenced to six years in prison..

1201 W. Rosecrans Avenue, in Compton, CA:
the rear parking lot of Tam's Burgers, where, on the afternoon of
January 29, 2015, police allege that Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight ran over two men with his truck, killing one of them, (a supposed friend) Terry Carter.

Earlier
in the day, Suge Knight had been on the nearby movie set of the biopic,
“Straight Out of Compton,” and was told to leave. The argument
continued in the parking lot of the burger joint, when apparently
Knight and the other victim got into a fight.

According
to police, Knight ran over the man, and when backing up, ran over Terry
Carter (who apparently wasn't involved in the fight), killing him.

The
gangster rap mogul was arrested for murder the next day. His
lawyer claimed that he was being attacked and was attempting to flee
when he accidentally struck the men.

But
police said that video of the incident would confirm their charges, and
the court, which has originally set a $1 million bail, revoked it, so
Knight remains in jail, pending his trial for murder.

95 Saint Thomas Way, in Tiburon, CA: Robin Williamsdidn't
die in the L.A. area. He passed away in a quiet neighborhood
called Paradise Cay, northwest of San Francisco. But for his
fans, I'm posting the information.

Police were called to his home just before noon, on August 10, 2014.

He had hanged himself with a belt, in his bedroom, some time during the night. He was declared dead at the scene, an apparent suicide.

Robin had
been suffering from severe depression, and had a past history of drug addiction, but drugs played no role in his death.

He
had
been attending a charity event (to aid typhoon relief in the
Philippines), and went for what was supposed to be a quick spin as a
passenger in a friend's red Porsche Carrera GT. The sports car, which is capable of doing 240 mph,
went out of control, smashed into a light pole and exploded into
flames, killing both men.

The
Porsche wound up as a tangled heap of wreakage, wrapped around a small
tree at the side of the road, and was engulfed in flames when
authorities arrived. Paul was pronounced dead at the scene.

The location is about a mile northeast of Six Flags Magic Mountain.

Here is a Google StreetView of the light pole that his car struck.
And this is the exact spot where the car came to rest.

(
The photo on the right shows the tree that Paul's car hit, and which is
now full of comments from his fans. Click on the image to see a
large version. )

5445 Brynhurst Avenue, Los Angeles, CA: The police showed up at this suburban home in Hyde Park around 8:30 PM, on May 19, 2014, after receiving a 911 call from actor Michael Jace. He was waiting for them outside the house, and told the police that he had shot his wife.

Inside the home, police found the body of April Jace, his wife of 11
years, in a hallway. She had been shot multiple times.

Michael Jace portrayed an LAPD officer 'Julien Lowe' on the TV series "The Shield",
from 2002 to 2008.

He was also a regular on "Southland" (as
'Terrell') and appeared in minor roles in the movies
"Forrest Gump", "Boogie Nights" and "Planet of the Apes". In 1999, he starred as basketball legend Michael Jordan in the TV-movie "Michael Jordan: An American Hero".He was arrested on suspicion of murder, and was later sentenced to 40 years in prison.

The Vincent Thomas Bridge, San Pedro, CA: It was
here, from atop this bridge spanning the L.A. harbor, that director Tony Scottjumped
to his death on August 19, 2012.

Tony had directed such hits as
"Top Gun", "Crimson Tide" and "Beverly Hills Cop II", and with his
brother, famed director Ridley Scott, ran the production company 'Scott Free'.The 1,500 feet long Vincent
Thomas bridge, which arches over the harbor water between San Pedro and Long
Beach,
is 185 feet high, and has been featured in several Hollywood movies over
the years, including featured in the movies "To Live & Die in
L.A.", "Charlie's Angels" and "Gone in 60 Seconds".

It has also been the scene of several suicides.

Reportedly, Scott parked his Toyota Prius on the bridge just after noon,
walked to the south side of the span, climbed a fence, and without
hesitating, jumped into the water below. He left a suicide note behind
in his car. Divers recovered his body four hours later.

9876 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA: It was
here, in room 434 of the Beverly Hilton Hotel(on the 4th floor), that singing legend Whitney Houston
was found dead, submerged in a bathtub, on the afternoon of February
11, 2012, one day before the annual Grammy Awards. She was 48.

Autopsy results later revealed that she had died from accidental drowning, brought on by cocaine use and a heart condition.

12685 Mulholland Drive, Beverly Hills, CA: It was
here, at his hilltop home, on the morning of February 1, 2012, that
police discovered the body of "Soul Train" creator and host, Don Cornelius. He was 75.

Police said Mr. Cornelius, who had been ill and suffered through a bitter divorce, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Like Dick Clark's
"American Bandstand", "Soul Train" was a long-running TV dance show
aimed at U.S. teens. But where American bandstand focused on Top
10 pop music, Soul Train featured soul and R&B artists. The
show ran for 35 years, and he hosted the show for 23 of those years.

3600 Barham Boulevard,
near Universal City, CA: It was here, at the Oakwood Apartments,
on the early morning of March 10, 2010, that actorCorey Haim died of what at first appeared to
be a drug overdose, at his mother's apartment, at age 38.

He had battled an
addiction to prescription drugs. An autopsy later revealed, however, that
drugs did not play a role in his death, which was the result of pneumonia
and heart problems.

Corey was best remembered
for his lead role in the 1986 movie "Lucas", and as the younger
brother in the 1987 teen vampire tale "The Lost Boys".
(He and Corey Feldman made a number of movies together, and even appeared
in a reality show called "The Two Coreys".)

His mother called
911 after he collapsed, just before 1 AM. He was taken to a Burbank hospital
but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

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